Julie Kelly: The Surrender Cons Have Finally Found a Hill Worth Dying On: The Cherished Fictions of The Progressive Left

Oh, they actually will fight about things they care about.

But what they care about is advancing the key politico-culturo-religious shibboleths of the lunatic left.

Kelly begins by noting Heritage's President, Kay Cole James, joining the left to accuse Americans of being fundamentally racist at their cores.

Racial "cowards," as noted Non-Heritage President Eric Holder called us.

We have to send money to a "conservative" group to repeat Eric Holder's slanders about us?

If we sent Heritage more money, could they maybe not slander us?

It is a reflex, unfortunately, that's commonplace on the establishment Right, an infuriating capitulation to our country's most insidious foes...

[A]t a pivotal moment, James instead chose to invoke the language of the Left. And she wasn't alone.

A few days after James' column was posted, Tucker Carlson detailed a marquee roster of "conservative" leaders who lined up to reprimand a racist America and, in effect, condone the Black Lives Matter insurgency. The list included James, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, and former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina. Carlson even called out Vice President Mike Pence and Trump's national security advisor for jumping on the time-for-soul-searching bandwagon.

Predictably, the same outlets and pundits that surface whenever the Left needs backup rushed to cover for the race-baiting "conservatives." Carlson's monologue was labeled a "misleading attack on prominent conservatives," by Ramesh Ponnuru, an editor at National Review.

In a rebuke that was part strawman, part cherry-picking, and part rambling word salad, Ponnuru failed to make his case. But no matter, Ponnuru--a visiting fellow for the American Enterprise Institute, another what-have-you-done-for-me-lately conservative think tank populated by NeverTrumpers-had achieved his goal of shivving Carlson while defending race-hustlers on the Right. (Ponnuru, however, was filled with praise for Joe Biden’s response to the Floyd killing, cooing over Biden's "old-time liberalism" and decency in the midst of crisis.)

Speaking of National Review, some of its editors and columnists continue to play footsie with the Left--unsurprising behavior considering NR contributors have been invaluable allies to Democrats in their crusade against Donald Trump. Just consider their work as foot soldiers in the effort to perpetuate the Russian collusion hoax; bolster Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe into imaginary crimes; warn about surges in "white supremacy"; oppose the president's emergency declaration to protect the southern border; and back impeachment--to name a few. Not even the Covington Catholic High School pro-life students were spared an immediate condemnation and thrashing from National Review's "conservatives."

Read the whole thing.

Julie Kelly's got a book coming out tomorrow, July 7th now, called "Disloyal Opposition: How the NeverTrump Right Tried -- and Failed -- to Take Down the President."

I've got it preordered.

Update: This is how ESPN covered the NooseCar Debacle, a friend tips:

ESPN crawler was "FBI: NOOSE HAS BEEN UP SINCE 2019."

Not that it wasn't a noose. Just that it's a noose which has been hanging at Talledega so long it has squatter's rights.

Not that there was no racism here -- just an overactive and paranoid racist imagination.

But that there's so much racism, people don't even notice it for months and months.

AS PREDICTED: LITTLE BENNIE SHAPIRO PULLS A "COVINGTON CROSS-UP" AND PRETENDS HE WASN'T A MAJOR PUSHER OF THIS HOAX:

Ben Shapiro is pretending (as I predicted) that he wasn't one of the people pushing the NooseCAR hoax.

He did the same thing with Covington.

Now he'll write columns scolding those who did the exact same thing he did.

Hey Little Bennie, when you start writing your columns denouncing those who pushed this hoax, don't forget this mendacious little quisling, too.

Good, other people have noticed. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

Remember in Superman II, when Superman finally defeats the three Kryptonian invaders? And how Lex Luthor then jumps to his side and says, "We did it! I was with you all the time, Superman!"

That's our brave warrior, Little Bennie Shapiro.

posted by Ace of Spades at 07:06 PM

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